Does 30 grams of fat per day reduce recurrence rates?

[rhondalea]

This is the study most of the articles you're reading is based on:

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/98/24/1767

The researcher, herself, wasn't sure if it was the low-fat diet or the weight loss. She also suggested the possibility that low-fat decreases insulin which leads to lower recurrence.

http://preventcancer.aicr.org/site/N...rl=0&abbr=pub_

In other words, they got a result that correlates low-fat with a lower recurrence rate, but they don't know whether the link is causal. Here's a link to the long-term follow-up:

http://www.onclive.com/conference-co...n-Intervention

It seems to indicate weight loss, not low-fat, as the key.

If I ate that little fat, I'd be very ill, so it's not even an option for me. I'm betting that sugar is the culprit, so I keep my carbs a little lower and my fat and protein a little higher.

Here's a 2014 article that postulates low-carb as a recurrence prevention method:

http://www.cancercenter.com/discussi...er-recurrence/

This is the study to which it refers:

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content...65.EPI-13-1218

[SpitFire]

Does my diet now after all the treatment I went through have an affect on my risk of recurrence or is it out of my hands?

How do you know if your breast tumor is positive or negative for the insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) receptor?

[Becky]

Also if memory serves me correct, the low fat regime works best for triple negative bc.